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thanks to grandma you are finally one step closer to your dream of esports

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domination she just gave you her old computer you

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know the one she bought it seven years ago on clearance

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but that's not important all that matters is you've got your valerian

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invite and you are ready to tear up the battlefield there's just one small

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problem your new computer

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is really really slow so

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it's time for a quick and uh

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dirty upgrade on the cheap

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below excuse me

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it truly is a fantastic time to be a pc

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gamer pretty much all the biggest games in the world right now can be enjoyed on

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relatively attainable hardware and okay

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your grandma might not be the type to bequeath you a pc

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mine sure isn't but we specifically chose this machine because it is the

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kind of thing that even if it wasn't given to them a student could obtain for

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him or herself without spending a lot of money and we also saw a pretty

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reasonable upgrade path for it so we went with the delightfully mediocre dell

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optiplex 9010 a newer version of the classic gray dell tower of yesterday now

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we'll poke around the insides we've got a core i7 3770 now that's not the

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unlocked k variant but quite honestly you're not going to be

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doing any overclocking on this dell special motherboard anyway two

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four gig sticks of sk hynix uh pc3 1600

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megahertz memory okay oh woof is that a

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gt 640 graphics card oh that is nasty oh

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wow this might actually use a standard power

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supply moment of truth here we go

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man i do not miss hard drives look at this even the images for the shortcuts on the

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desktop take like 18 minutes to load in

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let's start with something it should be able to handle let's play some legal legends huh

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well i finally got in and now that i did dang it's running just fine look at that

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150 170 FPS i always forget just how

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easy it is to run this game hmm we're getting dips though i mean

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that is sort of a function of this being

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barely up to spec hardware i'm seeing some stutters as i'm panning the camera

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around a little bit certainly better than i would expect any other modern

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game to run on what was a bad video card you know seven eight years ago

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and it's definitely playable i mean you're probably gonna you know you're probably gonna get ganked at some point

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if i'm getting my terminology right because of a leg spike but

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you know it is what it is all right so this game's running and

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aside from some chug it's running pretty well it says that 1080p medium quality

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finishing loading it needs a separate screen for finishing

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loading that's how you know you're using a hard drive

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all right let's go boys wow this is not as good an experience definitely running

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at a lower frame rate now not to the point where i'd say it

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interferes with my ability to play the game though like this is still a solid

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you know 45 to 55 somewhere in that range FPS

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it's usable one thing i haven't noticed is oh never mind there it goes okay it's

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it's chugging it's struggling is that GPU's fan even spinning

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oh yeah it's working okay oh oh there's a hero

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wait i'm a hero are you a hero oh well there was another hero there he

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was hiding how is the easy ai so smart

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okay well anyway that's enough of that game wow it's really chugging we're

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getting down as low as 30 plus FPS but those frame times you can really see

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them spiking so just because you've got 30 FPS doesn't mean that you're actually

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getting reasonable frame times and every time your frame times jump

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that's when you feel like a leg or a or a spike or like a a stutter

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um okay hey partner how are we doing here bud

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oh we're not doing so good um neat

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yeah and we're dead well that was quick what is this a shotgun oh is that bad

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hey uh coltie buddy uh pal

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what's up man uh how does valerie work oh lordy i died um how many rounds do i

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have to play i i joined a server so i could benchmark a graphics card i'm

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trying to quit and it's like hey you're harming the experience of the other players you shouldn't do that how long

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do i have to play this for uh it could be upwards of 24 rounds

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what yeah so it's whichever team gets to 13

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first 13. yeah it's kind of crazy

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i'm not playing 13 rounds what who's got time for this

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yeah you could just i mean you know gamers but you could just leave i think

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one of my teammates is already gone because they're just standing at the

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spawn so could i could i guilt-free leave at that point

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yeah you'd probably go for leave yeah okay cool i mean they're probably gone

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because i'm terrible so it's still my fault

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they gave up uh well you'll be fine with it all right thanks if anyone asks why i

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bailed on the match i'ma let them know Colton said it's okay

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for fun we're gonna try something a little more demanding we've got pubg

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running at 1080p sort of because the render scale is

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70 of 1080p and we've got everything

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cranked to very low there we go whoa

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okay that is not a lot of FPS and this is not a good looking game at

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all low i can barely even tell where like the towns are

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in fairness to the gt640 this looks terrible but is running relatively

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smoothly run forward run

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now there's a dated reference

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why would you do that what's wrong with you

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ow ow okay all right well there you have

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it unsurprisingly almost all the games we tried were at least functional if we

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were willing to sacrifice visual quality on our gt640 so if all you want to do is

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play these games then go ahead and check out the ebay links

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below and get out of here just just go

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for it however if you were hoping to turn the details up to high or get a

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smoother experience in the games because what we noticed was that even the ones

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that were running at high FPS were stuttering and hitching a lot of the

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time you're gonna wanna watch on step number

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one is definitely for the sake of my sanity

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to install a bloody SSD in this thing

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let's get it shut down here going from a spinning disc to a

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solid-state drive is a monumental improvement now a one terabyte SATA SSD

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from a well-known brand is gonna run you about a hundred dollars these days but

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if you don't need that much capacity which you might not and you're willing

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to just kind of take a gamble there are some deals out there just make sure that

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you grab something with a dram cache so for example the fatty dove racing 120

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gig that we checked out recently that did turn out to have a dram cache only

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cost us 20 bucks now in terms of uh

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mounts well this case is pretty old it doesn't have two and a half inch mounts

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but the good news is that ssds don't have any moving parts and we can just

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chuck it there now for system memory eight gigs of RAM might be enough if all

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you're going to do is play basic games with pretty much nothing running in the

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background but a cheap brand name 16 gig

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kit like this hyperx fury set that we had on hand will go a long way towards

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running more demanding games and improving multitasking ebay craigslist

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and facebook marketplace are all good places to find fantastic deals on ddr3

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from people who are upgrading whether it's to ryzen or something from Intel

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right now now we were lucky our cheapo

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dell motherboard happens to have four memory slots so if all we wanted was 16

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gigs of RAM we could just slot in two more four gig sticks and it's off to the

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races but we don't have any matching memory and we

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want the best chance at compatibility here so what we're going to do is what a

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lot of people would have to do because they might end up with a motherboard that only has two slots on it is we're

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going to take out what we've got and we're going to replace it with our new

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RAM as for the gt640 graphics card in

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here it's pretty tired in fairness to it

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it was born tired as soon as you fire up something much more demanding than

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league of legends you know it starts to struggle the good news though

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is that the core i7 3770 CPU in here is

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still a very competent gaming processor even

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to this day so we can add a lot of

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graphics muscle to this machine before our CPU becomes the bottleneck as long

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as we stay within reason our GPU upgrade

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ambitions are going to be somewhat limited by the 275 watt power supply

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that's included with our system and while we could add a new power supply

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especially with this system that does seem to use standard atx by the time we

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add a power supply we're getting dangerously close to new system kind of

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money and besides opening up that can of worms can

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cause more problems than it solves even some proprietary motherboards that look

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standard might have different pin outs or specialty connectors for example that

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make them a hassle to deal with now we did go second hand for our memory and

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that is totally an option for graphics something like a gtx 960 is a great

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choice for under seventy dollars but

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if we want to max out our machine without having to upgrade our power

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supply the two GPU options for the most

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FPS per power consumption are the gtx

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1650 super so this one right here is 100

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watts and starts at about 170

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and the gtx 1660 ti this is 120 watts

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and starts around the 250 mark now since both of these graphics cards

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require external power and this power supply doesn't have pci express power

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connectors we're going to use these SATA to six pin adapters

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i know the saying molex to SATA lose all your data etc etc etc but either of

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these cards is going to pull 75 watts from the pci express slot leaving less

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than the 50 watts that the SATA connector can handle to be drawn over

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the pci express cable so we should

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be fine now i'm going to install the 1660 ti because the point of this video

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is to show you guys with some choice upgrades what a machine like this can be

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capable of but if you don't have the budget for that right now you can always

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get something else for now and then pick up one of these later on down the line

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once they fall in price another point by the way guys if you

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don't have any extra power available or

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you were only able to find one of those half-height desktops you do still have

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an option the gtx 1650 has a low profile

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variant this one's from zotac that does not require any external power making it

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a simple drop-in upgrade and most of the time they'll include a low profile

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bracket so you can install it in one of those slim towers now here we are half

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an hour later and depending on what kind of deals you can scrounge the cost of a

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game console or even less and we are ready to boot up our system with that

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next-gen technology of solid state

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man i can already tell how much more responsive this thing is just from

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opening up control panels like resizing Windows it makes a big

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difference let's kick it off with league of legends shall we

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see how long this game takes to load on our SSD

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wow i bet i could even have chrome open

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wow we are right up against our FPS cap here

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how about no FPS cap how about that what do you think of that all right hey

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370 FPS and you can see as i'm scrolling around

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here we're not getting those those jutters and stutters you can see that

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it's nice and smooth even though i'm recording at only 30 FPS you can still

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tell there's a marked difference wow those frame times three milliseconds

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300 FPS in the loading screen now that shouldn't be that impressive but

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compared to what we saw last time it is well that really is a lot better

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we're ripping around on the map at what

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250 frames per second it really is amazing how much game these old third

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gen core i5s and i7s have in them even in modern titles like this

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what a difference not only is it running way smoother like

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you can just tell but we've actually turned the details up to medium so the

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game looks a lot better as well view distance in particular in this game

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makes a big difference to your potential success so the bottom line is you pair a

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machine like this up with an inexpensive 120 or 144 hertz display and a decent

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mouse and you're going to be clicking heads all day long in games like

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valerian and cs go and even getting a pretty darn good experience in heavier

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titles now the thing is this setup isn't going to make you a better gamer only

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you can do that but as we explored an hour does FPS make

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you a better gamer series it will make it easier for you to get better now even

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if you don't go for the GPU upgrade for grandma's old rig i would still

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recommend the SSD one just because it will make the experience that much

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better as you're rising through the ranks and the lighter titles on a really

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